THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

The gunman allegedly shot his grandmother 'up to seven times' before fleeing in her car with a woman believed to be his girlfriend, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

Garcetti said the suspect got into an argument with his grandmother about 1.30pm, and the woman believed to be his girlfriend, who was 'forcibly taken' with him, was also injured but is expected to survive.

The man's grandmother was transported to hospital in 'grave condition', has undergone several surgeries and remains in a critical condition, LAPD Chief Michael Moore said.

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Pictured: Mely Corado, the Trader Joe's employee who was killed in the store when the suspect ran in on Saturday afternoon

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Pictured: The 28-year-old man who allegedly stormed the supermarket on Saturday and took dozens of hostages. He is seen being treated for a gunshot wound to his left arm, sustained in a shootout with police

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The man who held up to 50 people hostage at Trader Joe's and allegedly killed a woman inside surrendered to police in handcuffs on Saturday evening

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Pictured: The suspect, who is 28 years old, allegedly shot his grandmother as many as seven times before holding as many as 50 people in a Trader Joe's hostage

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Pictured: The suspect (pictured center), handed himself into police just after 6.30pm after a three-hour siege

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Mayor Eric Garcetti said a woman had been shot dead inside the store

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Pictured: A young victim is taken away from the store in a wheelchair with a bandage on their knee an

When the man fled the scene of the first alleged shooting, police caught up to him, and he shot at officers multiple times. Police chased him from Hollywood into Silverlake, where he crashed outside the shop, shot his girlfriend, and ran inside.

The vehicle was seen wrapped around a pole and police rescued the 20-year-old woman left inside. Her injuries have not been confirmed, but are believed to include a gunshot wound, KTLA reported.

Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times the woman is his girlfriend, and he had fired at officers, who fired back, before he ran inside the supermarket.

LAPD told KCAL the man had shot his grandmother and girlfriend about 1.30pm, before fleeing the Hollywood scene in a 2015 Toyota Camry and arriving at the supermarket before 3.30pm

When he did surrender to police just after 6.30pm, the man emerged with handcuffs on and with four hostages, as was previously agreed to in negotiations between the man and LAPD, ABC reported.

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Police swarmed the Trader Joe's in Silverlake on Saturday afternoon after the gunman barricaded himself inside

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PIctured: The suspect's car, which he crashed into a street pole before running into the shop

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Law enforcement spent hours working to evacuate employees and customers, including small children, with at least one person seen fleeing with injuries.

While many were seen fleeing from the supermarket, it is believed there were still as many as 30 people inside just after 4pm.

Mayor Garcetti confirmed to reporters the man had been in contact with LAPD during the hostage situation, and initially had 40-50 customers and employees in the store with him.

'A slow and steady stream of people who had hidden and were helped by LAPD to escape, or people who were released by the hostage taker [were seen leaving the store],' he said.

The gunman was injured in his left arm during his shootout with police, and NBC reported towards the end of the hostage situation, people he had forcibly taken were helping him with his wounds.

Devin Field said on Twitter he was about to enter the Trader Joe's when the man's car crashed into a street lamp outside.

'I was walking in when he crashed into the entrance and got out shooting,' he said.

'I ducked behind the four-foot retaining wall in the parking lot and three LAPD officers ran over, knelt behind it right next to me and opened fire.'

Field says others who had been evacuated said the gunman 'walked in shooting', demanded a jumper and a phone, and moved the remaining hostages to the back of the store.

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Pictured: A Trader Joe's employee is comforted after escaping the supermarket where the man barricaded himself with hostages

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An employee told him there was 'blood all over the floor', but they did not know where it'd come from. He says another employee said one Trader Joe's worker was shot in the arm.

Field's account has not been confirmed by any official sources.

Don Kohles , 91, was also walking into the Trader Joe’s when the suspect crashed his car into the street pole.

He says police fired at the male driver and shattered the store’s glass doors. Kohles says he and others inside took cover and laid on the floor as the suspect ran inside.

He says the man ran toward the back of the store and yelled at people inside but he never heard any more gunshots.

The elderly man said he was terrified and others around him were sobbing. After about 30 minutes, he says police came him and rushed them outside.

BLACK AMERICA: VIOLENT, RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, VIOLENT and ABORTED!

Cops raid a North Carolina daycare center and find more than 100lbs of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and GUNS

·Police raided a daycare in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Tuesday and seized a massive stash of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, cash and firearms

A massive stash of marijuana, cocaine and heroin has been seized from a daycare in North Carolina, authorities say.

Fayetteville police raided Tori's Playhouse on Tuesday and found cookies and gummy bears laced with marijuana along with six guns, 100lbs of pot, more than a half kilo of cocaine and an ounce of heroin.

The couple that ran the daycare, Reshod J Everett and Victoria L Everett, have been arrested on drug charges along with a third person, 27-year-old Alvin Davis III.

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No children were present at the daycare during the raid, according to Fayetteville police

Officials said officers waited until all of the children at the center had gone home before carrying out the raid.

'We don't have any information that would lead up to believe any children got their hands on an of this stuff at all,' Lt Douglas Nicolosi said.

Nicolosi has overseen the Fayetteville Police Department's Gang Unit's investigation, which began several months ago and is ongoing.

Officers reportedly returned to the home Thursday night to conduct a follow-up search.

Across the 36-hour bust police seized more than 300 pounds of marijuana, 10 firearms, $70,000 in cash and an Audi Q7 SUV.

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Alvin Davis III, 27, was also arrested in connection with the investigation on Monday

Reshod Everett has been charged with trafficking in marijuana by possession, trafficking in marijuana by manufacturing, trafficking in cocaine by manufacturing, conspiring to traffic in cocaine, maintaining a dwelling for keeping and selling a controlled substance, trafficking in heroin by possession, trafficking in heroin by manufacturing, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and conspiracy to traffic heroin.

He was being held at Cumberland County Detention Center under $430,000 bond.

Victoria Everett is charged with trafficking in marijuana by possession, trafficking in heroin by possession, trafficking in heroin by manufacturing, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for keeping and selling a controlled substance and conspiracy to traffic in heroin.

She is also being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center under $287,000 bond.

Davis was also arrested Monday in connection with the investigation and is facing two counts of trafficking marijuana, two counts of trafficking cocaine, two counts of conspiracy to trafficking, maintaining a dwelling for controlled substances, maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances and carrying a concealed weapon.

It was not immediately clear if or how he is related to the couple.

EYE ON THE NEWS

A Tale of Two Killings

Chicago erupts in violence over a police shooting, but no outrage attends the far more typical killing of a bystander by a murderous felon.

Last Sunday, a 59-year-old woman on the West Side of Chicago was killed by a would-be carjacker. The felon walked up to the driver’s side of the car, which was being driven by a 71-year-old man, and pulled his gun. The senior citizen refused to surrender the vehicle and kept driving. The would-be carjacker opened fire at the car, striking the woman in the head and killing her.

The night before, on the South Side, a Chicago officer killed a 37-year-old man whom the officer’s patrol partners had observed behaving in a manner suggesting that he was carrying a gun. The officers tried to question Harith Augustus, and he appeared to pull something from his wallet, according to police body-camera footage, possibly his firearms owner-identification card. One officer tried to grab Augustus (the police report said that he became combative), but he pulled away and ran into the street, where he appeared to reach for the gun holstered on his right hip. One of the officers opened fire and killed him. Augustus’s gun was recovered at the scene.

True to script, the officer-involved shooting sparked violent street anarchy on Saturday night, instigated by Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and other anti-cop activist groups. Protesters threw rocks and bottles, some filled with urine, at officers. Four officers were injured. Chants included “How do you spell racist? CPD [Chicago Police Department],” and “Murderers.” Protests have continued, drawing intense local media and political attention. “This department is racist . . . and we’re tired of it,” said one of the organizers.

There were no protests against the taking of the carjacking victim’s life. Carjackings have nearly tripled in Chicago since 2015, averaging two per day in 2017 and close to that in 2018. In August 2016, officers tried to pull over a car involved in an earlier carjacking; someone inside the car opened fire and hit one of the officers in the face. The shooter was on parole for attempted armed robbery. In January 2017, a teen carjacker ambushed a 34-year-old mother in an alleyway where she had been parking her car. His initial blow to her head with his gun was so severe that it temporarily blinded her. “Quit trying to kick back, you white bitch,” the assailant said as he pistol-whipped her. Before the attack, the mother had noticed a van suspiciously idling in the alleyway, but decided to continue about her business, likely second-guessing herself about “racial profiling.” In March 2017, a man with a gun forced a 24-year-old woman into the trunk of her car and raced it around the South Side until crashing into a tree. In August 2017, a 28-year-old entrepreneur and student was fatally shot in his car when he refused to hand it over to the carjacker. In November 2017, a pair of thugs accosted an 88-year-old man and stole his Lincoln at gunpoint. They almost immediately crashed into a semitrailer truck and retaining wall; one of the two felons died in the crash.

In the first six months of 2018, more than 60 children under 15 have been shot in Chicago. In June alone, an 11-year-old boy was shot in the head; a 12-year-old girl was killed as she was carrying her baby cousin; and a 14-year-old boy was gunned down by a passing car. Black Lives Matter activists have nothing to say about this violence because it does not involve police officers. Officer-involved shootings are a minute fraction of Chicago’s ongoing carnage—in 2016, they made up 0.5 percent of all shootings in the city. The foot patrol that accosted Augustus was in the neighborhood—the CPD’s Third District—because the local alderman, residents, and business owners had requested greater police protection. The area had seen an increase in open-air drug deals. So far this year, there have been 69 shootings in the Third District, a little under a dozen a month, 15 of them fatal. A witness reported to the Chicago Sun-Times that Augustus was selling “loosies”—single untaxed cigarettes—a practice that shop owners loathe for its contribution to an atmosphere of street lawlessness.

Black Lives Matter has thankfully lost its sounding board in the White House. But at the local level, away from the Resistance-obsessed national media radar screen, its anti-cop poison continues to distort policing and police-community relations. It is a tragedy for Augustus’s family and acquaintances that he lost his life; the shooting must be thoroughly investigated. If any tactical changes are needed to lessen the risk that a police encounter escalates into the use of lethal force, they should be implemented through rigorous hands-on training. But the officers were right to approach an apparently armed man, especially given the area’s record of shootings. Such proactive policing has dropped precipitously in Chicago, resulting in a sharp rise in violent crime since 2014. (Law professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles empirically connect the drop in stops to rising crime in this 2018 paper.)

The anti-cop violence against the CPD for a shooting that, though deeply unfortunate, appears to be justified will further lessen officers’ willingness to intervene in suspicious behavior. A Chicago detective told me, in the wake of Saturday’s violence: “Those who care about law enforcement and a civil society cannot win against willful blindness and straight-up lies. This is an open civil war that goes quite beyond Chicago.” The demoralization of law enforcement continues, and it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who will continue paying the price.

Mother is accused of letting men rape her daughter, TWO, who then got an STD and was left with meth in system

Azzie Watson, 25, a mother-of-two from Missouri, charged with child abuse and endangerment

Watson was arrested after allegedly confessing on a recording that she repeatedly took her two-year-old daughter to be raped by two men

Watson told her boyfriend, who made the recording, that she watched the sexual assaults

Toddler later tested positive for an STD and also had methamphetamine in her system

Both the girl and her one-year-old brother were found to have foreign metal objects lodged in their feet

A young mother from Missouri has been charged with letting men repeatedly rape her two-year-old daughter, who then contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

Azzie Watson, 25, of Independence, was charged on Tuesday with child abuse and endangerment. Her bond was set at $75,000.

According to court documents, Watson's boyfriend recorded the mother-of-two talking about repeatedly taking her eldest daughter to a house where the toddler was raped by two men about five times.

She says on the recording that she watched the sexual assaults and called herself 'a coward.'

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Monstrous charges: Azzie Watson, 25, is accusing of allowing two men to rape her two-year-old daughter five times as she watched

The disturbing case began unfolding on June 29, when police were called to a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, for a report of a rape, according to Kansas City Star.

While at the hospital, police were handed the recording of Watson's alleged confession, leading to her arrest on an unrelated charge of failure to appear in court.

Court documents say when interviewed by detectives in jail last week, Watson claimed that what she said in the recording was a lie because she was scared of her boyfriend.

Detectives informed the mother-of-two that her two-year-old daughter tested positive for an STD and also had methamphetamine in her system.

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Watson, pictured above in an old mugshot, has been charged with child abuse and endangerment

Both the little girl and her one-year-old brother were also found to have foreign metal objects lodged in their feet, apparently from walking barefoot inside their mother's home littered with debris.

Watson said she did not know how her daughter contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

Both of her children's have been living with a foster parent since June, and it was the siblings' caregiver who took them to the hospital on June 29 after the two-year-old girl, who never met her father, told the woman as she was changing her diaper, 'Daddy hurt me.'

So far, no additional suspects have been arrested in connection to the child's rape.

Chicago Man Gets 8 Years for Facebook Live Abduction, Abuse of Disabled Teen

Jordan Hill, 20, was sentenced Thursday to eight years imprisonment after pleading guilty to aggravated kidnapping and a hate crime — bringing more closure to a disturbing Chicago ordeal that made national headlines after it was streamed live over Facebook.

CITYRight Cause, Wrong Target

A misguided protest in Chicago blames the city’s rampant violent crime on inadequate social

A knife-wielding attacker left nine people, including six children, injured in an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, that is home to many refugees. At least four of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries. The suspect, who was reportedly a resident of the apartment complex and not a refugee, is in custody, police say.

Boise Police Department officers responded to what they called the worst stabbing incidents in the Idaho capital city’s history. They found nine people in the parking lot and inside the apartment complex who had been stabbed, KBOI reported. Police Chief William Bones said some of the injured residents included members of the city’s refugee community.

Police have not released a motive for the attack. However officers arrested Timmy Kinner, a 30-year-old black male from Los Angeles, a few blocks away from the scene, IdahoNews CBS2 reported.

Six children and three adults received injuries during the attack that occurred Saturday night, the local CBS affiliate reported. Police have charged Kinner with six counts of felony injury to a child and nine counts of aggravated battery. Officials said Kinner is not a refugee. He is reported to be a “temporary resident” of the apartments and had been asked to leave on Friday.

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter responded to the attack. “Last night’s horrific attack does not represent Boise,” the mayor said in a written statement. “Please join me in praying for the injured and their families. We must come together to condemn this vile act.”

The incident began shortly before 8:45 p.m. Saturday night, KOMONews reported. Police reportedly found Kinner a few blocks away from the apartment complex, but the knife has not yet been found.“You can imagine this is a very tight-knit community here in this apartment complex. The attack had a devastating effect on the people,” Boise Police Chief Bill Bones told reporters Saturday night. “We haven’t had anything involving this amount of victims in a single attack in Boise in the history of the department. Obviously, it’s something you hope never comes to your city.”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, GAB, and Facebook.

Stepmother accused of starving 10-year-old girl to death then burning her body in a trash can refuses lawyer and says she is relying on God to get her through trial

·Tiffany Moss, 35, is accused of murdering her stepdaughter Emani in 2013

·Emani's 32lb body was found in a trash can at their home in Gwinnett, Georgia

·She died from starvation and had not eaten anything for two weeks

·Her father Eman has already pleaded guilty to her murder but Tiffany is awaiting trial

·This week, she shocked judges by deciding to represent herself at trial

A woman accused of starving her 10-year-oldstepdaughter to death then burning her body in a trash can has decided not to get a lawyerand is facing trial on her own because she believes God is on her side.

Tiffany Moss, 35, is accused of murdering her stepdaughter Emani in 2013 in Gwinnett, Georgia.

The child's charred remains were found in a trash can at the apartment complex where she lived with her father Eman after he called 911 threatening to kill himself.

Emani weighed just 32lbs when she died and had not eaten for two weeks.

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Her father pleaded guilty to murder last year and will testify against his wife as part of his plea agreement.

He was sentenced to life without parole instead of execution.

This week, she shocked judges and lawyers by refusing an attorney and announcing that she wanted to enter trial representing herself.

If convicted, she could be sentenced to death.

The judge has delayed proceedings in order for a higher court to review her decision.

She told the judge that she will rely instead on divine intervention to ensure justice is served.

Video shows the pair walking away from the scene and high-fiving each other with grins on their faces

Published at 4:47 AM EDT on Jun 28, 2018 | Updated 21 minutes ago

Duo Knocks Man Out in NYC, Take Pictures of Him Unconscious

A man was left in a street after a punch knocked him out, leaving him behind for people to pick his pockets and take pictures of him. Katherine Creag reports. (Published 5 hours ago)

Teen Says He Was Bystander, Claims Cops Kicked, Punched Him

WHAT TO KNOW

·Cops are hunting a pair of men who they say sucker-punched a man in the Bronx and took his picture while he was unconscious in the street

·Other people, cops claim, saw the man and picked his pockets, stealing his cellphone and ID

·The 37-year-old victim was taken to an area hospital, where he is in critical condition; he is suffering from a fractured skull

A man was left in a Bronx street in the middle of the day after a brutal punch knocked him out, leaving him behind for people to pick his pockets and take pictures of him while he's unconscious, authorities say.

Police say two attackers walked up to the 37-year-old man last Monday morning in the area of Aqueduct Avenue and Buchanan Place in University Heights. One of the suspects wound up and delivered a knockout blow on the victim, who then fell to the ground in the middle of the intersection.

A Mississippi man admitted Thursday to killing two Roman Catholic nuns and pleaded guilty to murder in an agreement that would avoid the death penalty.

Rodney Earl Sanders, 48, made the pleas to two counts of murder in state court in Lexington - just blocks away from where Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill had worked as nurse practitioners in a medical clinic.

Holmes County Circuit Judge Jannie Lewis gave Sanders two life without parole sentences, plus 30 more years for burglary and car theft.

Sanders stabbed to death Held and Merrill, both 69, in the home they shared in nearby Durant in 2016.

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He also pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing the house and stealing Held's car.

Sanders was indicted for raping both women, but did not admit guilt on those charges Thursday.

Shackled hand and foot in a loosely fitting orange jail jumpsuit, Sanders stood at times with his arms crossed before the judge. Lewis at times had to ask him to speak up.

Sanders was a resident of Kosciusko, but had been temporarily staying in a shed across the street from the sisters in Durant.

Sanders told investigators he went through the back door of the sisters' home, uninvited. He said Merrill saw him first before a struggle took place with both women, an investigator testified in 2016.

Court filings indicate DNA consistent with Sanders was found under the fingernails of at least one of the women. Prosecutors also say Sanders raped both women.

Mississippi Bureau of Investigation agent LeCarus Oliver testified in 2016 that Sanders confessed, telling officers that after stabbing the women, 'he washed himself up because his hands were sticky.'

Malone-Oliver said the state also had forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony linking Sanders to the crime.

Held was a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, based in Milwaukee. Merrill was a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky.

The motive for the crime has never been clear.

'To this day, we continued to ask ourselves about Sister Paula and Sister Margaret's last hours and minutes - how, and especially why,' Sister Susan Gatz, president of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, told the judge.

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Both orders and the sisters' relatives have opposed the death penalty for Sanders because it contradicts Catholic teaching.

'My family is morally and ethically opposed to the death penalty, as were Paula and Margaret,' said Rosemarie Merrill, Paula Merrill's sister.

Rosemarie Merrill told the judge she was 'relieved' that Sanders would spend the rest of his life in prison, but also said she had prayed for him and his family every day since his arrest.

She and other called for Sanders to repent and try to reform his life in prison.

Relatives of Held and Merrill, as well as other members of their religious orders, filled rows of benches in the courtroom Thursday. Some clenched their eyes shut as Malone-Oliver read the charges against Sanders before he pleaded guilty.

Marie Sanders, the wife of Rodney Sanders, was one of Sanders' few friends in the courtroom.

Also among those who spoke to the court was Sister Mary Walz, one of three new Catholic sisters who have moved into Held and Merrill's house to minister in Holmes County.

Walz, a social worker and a member of the Daughters of Charity, said she never met Held or Merrill, but felt like she knew them from meeting their former patients.

'They knew the sisters cared for them and took a personal interest in their well-being,' Walz said. 'I feel certain that their last breath, conscious or not, was a prayer of forgiveness for Rodney.'

The Violent Life and Shocking

Death of XXXTentacion

Jahseh Onfroy, better known as the artist XXXTentacion, purposefully collapsed the real-life pain he wrought on others into his artistic persona. He was killed on Monday.

Photograph by Matias J. Ocner / TNS / ZUMA

On Monday, an eyewitness video obtained by TMZ circulated on social media, showing Jahseh Onfroy, better known as the artist XXXTentacion, slumped in the driver’s seat of his black BMW outside of a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Onfroy had been shot in broad daylight. He was confirmed dead at a local hospital a short while later. The killers made off with a Louis Vuitton bag. (On Wednesday night a twenty-two-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.)

Onfroy lived his short life chaotically, violently. And his jagged confessional music, which enraptured millions, sprang nakedly from that violence. Usually, when musicians die as young and as tragically as Onfroy, they are the subject of hagiography. We lament the beauty gone, think forlornly of the future art the cruel present has stolen. The death of Onfroy and that of Lil Peep, in November of last year, are alarming signs of the recklessness governing the new-money life styles of certain young Internet celebrities, who are the inheritors of America’s dangerous crises of mental health, drug abuse, and masculinity. But reflecting on Onfroy’s legacy also requires a frank confrontation with the malignity he inflicted.

Onfroy was born in Plantation, Florida, in 1998, and raised in Broward County, primarily by his grandmother. His mother was a teen-ager when she had him, and she drifted in and out of his life, bringing lavish gifts and leaving sizable voids. Onfroy said, in an interview with the podcast “No Jumper,” in 2016, that he would instigate fights in grade school as a ploy to get her attention. In a recent interview with the Miami NewTimes, he told the reporter Tarpley Hittthat his mother once gave him permission to retaliate against a female classmate who was hitting him as a form of juvenile flirtation. In response, he “slapped the shit out of her and kneed her.” Onfroy said that his mom was surprised; she “realized how seriously I took her.” Later, he would get her name—Cleopatra—tattooed on his chest.

Onfroy spent his late childhood and adolescence in and out of juvenile-detention centers, for charges ranging from robbery to assault. He spent the rest of his time in the basements and studios of friends, where he assembled the scraps and fragments of his psyche into paeans to disaffection, to his depression, to Xanax and the numbing it brought, and to women, whom he viewed as devourers of his soul. (“Only time I feel pain, when I’m feelin’ love.”) He started uploading music to SoundCloud, in 2013. His early songs were howls, his rapping agile but his voice cracked; the production was bruised and unpolished. Onfroy seemed to add to his catalogue impulsively. By the time of his death, he’d made loosies, mixtapes, a smattering of features, and two albums, including “?,” which débuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

Among the ranks of the SoundCloud rap generation, there are pranksters, heartthrobs, and dilettantes, but Onfroy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard. He stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of its devotion to materialism, focussing instead, obsessively, on existential crisis. There wasn’t a dark thought that he kept hidden. He unleashed a tremulous bombardment of pessimism, occasionally interrupted by feral gestures of overwhelming helplessness. “Here is my pain and thoughts put into words. I put my all into this, in the hopes that it will help cure or at least numb your depression,” he speaks, on the introduction to his first album, “17.” He peddled the seductive notion that depression is license to hurt people, perhaps because it was his own personal justification. He wrote ditties threatening suicide if a partner left him, which I would hear blasting from cars on my block. Throughout his music, there are presages to an early death.

Onfroy purposefully collapsed the real-life pain he wrought on others into his artistic persona. The art for “Look At Me!,” a breakout single, featured one of his mugshots. It climbed the charts while he was in jail on charges of false imprisonment, witness tampering, and the assault and battery of a pregnant woman, his former girlfriend. (When she established a GoFundMe campaign for an operation to fix her broken orbital socket, people calling themselves XXXTentacion fans targeted her until the Web site temporarily shut it down.) To promote his music on “No Jumper,” Onfroy bragged about beating a gay peer at a detention center until they were both covered in blood. XXXTentacion lived his art, which some would call a mark of authenticity. He was admired by J. Cole and advocated for by Kendrick Lamar, whose label, TDE, threatened to remove its music from Spotify when the service briefly stopped promoting XXXTentacion on its playlists as part of its policy against hateful conduct. Many artists have memorialized him in recent days, including Kanye West, whose own new album, “Ye,” includes disturbing musings (“I thought about killing you”) that sound influenced by XXXTentacion. Onfroy’s victims are sacrifices, the thinking goes, on the pyre of raw art. The immaturity is part and parcel of the genius. The only unforgivable thing would be to be a hypocrite.

In remembrances of Onfroy in recent days, some have argued that, however grossly misguided his behavior, he provided his listeners with invaluable solace and understanding. Even that is a simplification. He could be strangely encouraging, uploading inspirational homilies to fans he knew were struggling with issues of mental health, which his followers have clung to in the days since his death. (“If I’m gonna die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure that my life made at least five million kids happy,” he said in an Instagram Live video posted late last year.) But he could also be despotic. At the Rolling Loud Festival in California, in 2017, he beat one fan with a microphone. On Instagram, he taunted people who challenged him about domestic violence. Last year, in an episode of particularly cruel chicanery, he uploaded a video in which he appeared to be hanging himself from a tree, sparking an online panic. His fans, sometimes out of ignorance, but most often, I think, out of desperation, loved him. They propped him up, voting him to the XXL Freshman List of 2017.

I’ve counted myself lucky to have grown up before XXXTentacion’s vicious ironies, knowing that as a teen-ager I may well have been enthralled by his lazy groans on tracks like “Moonlight.” But how much better did the teen idols of older generations really treat us? Music fandom is a passion that discourages rational thinking, and some artists take advantage of that. The fans do the rest. (On Tuesday, Onfroy’s former girlfriend posted a message on Instagram saying that she had been driven out of a vigil for him in Florida.) I am not sure that it is fruitful to patrol how people will remember XXXTentacion. If Onfroy is made a saint, he will join a pantheon that is plenty confused already. If people stomp on his name, I understand. Last October, he’d signed a new deal for a reported six million dollars. He died on the brink of something. We just don’t know what.

A black woman declared her disdain for "white people" before pummeling two white passengers on board a moving Ride On bus, Gaithersburg Police said.

Kimberly Jordan, 24, of Silver Spring, is charged with racial harassment, obstructing and second-degree assault due to her alleged offensive and physically painful antics.

Jordan allegedly began to stare at two white passengers and then murmured, "I hate white people." A short while later, Jordan, who weighs 250 pounds, reportedly stood up and clocked the female white passenger in the face. The male white passenger attempted to defend his friend, but got smacked in the face as well, police state.

The male victim suffered a "long" cut to this nose while the female victim had a number of scratches on her palms, likely defensive wounds.

There's the usual profile.

According to court documents, Jordan was unemployed and lived with her grandmother at the time of her arrest. She has a lengthy arrest record for charges like theft, burglary, destruction of property, assault and domestic violence.

So how long until Jordan becomes a contributor to The Root?

Violent racism is created equal through its sheer reality. Physically attacking someone has the same impact regardless of race. And yet the left vocally denies the existence of black racism. And denies its end results. This isn't an aberration. We've seen Black Lives Matter racial harassment and violence. We've seen the murder of police officers in New York and Dallas. But this is a more everyday kind of violence. And anyone who has spent enough time riding the New York City subway system has encountered this kind of behavior already. It's just a form of racial that no one is allowed to talk about.

But if we're going to have that national dialogue, that needs to change.

PICTURED: Two sisters stab each other in a knife fight over child care in front of five small kids

·Abria Tate, 24, and Alyssa Tate, 23, suffered knife wounds on their arms during fight in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday

Joann McLeod, 30, has been charged with the murder of her five-month-old son

A mother has been accused of killing her five-month-old son by throwing him against a wall, according to Bronx police.

Joann McLeod, 30, is facing murder charges after police found her infant son, Raymond Porfil, lifeless in his crib at McLeod's apartment in the New York City neighborhood of Soundview at around 10am on June 4.

He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital and the death was ruled a homicide.

On Tuesday MacLeod was arrested and confessed to having thrown the child into the wall.

She is currently awaiting an arraignment on murder charges.

Family members have said that the mom is an abusive drug addict who had previously had three children taken away by Child Services.

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Police found the infant, Raymond Porfil, lifeless in his crib on June 4 and he was pronounced dead at the hospital. McLeod confessed to throwing the baby against the wall of her apartment

'She was a bad, bad mother. She killed my baby,' the baby's father, Raymond Porfil Sr, told the New York Daily News.

'Every time he cried, she would spank and spank him. If I wasn't there, she would hit him. He had a black eye and a bruised mouth.'

Porfil's sister, Estella Walker, said that McLeod had told neighbors that Raymond had been crying so she 'stuffed a sock in the baby's mouth and taped it up, and then fell asleep.'

'When we went to the hospital, she wasn't even crying,' Walker, 43, told the NYDN.

'I feel so bad. That was my only son. He was my first boy,' Porfil said.

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Family members say McLeod is bipolar and addicted to the synthetic marijuana drug K2. The baby's uncle, Loriano Porfil, spoke to media outside the Bronx apartment on Tuesday

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The family and local community were shocked to hear about Raymond's death

The dad described McLeod as bipolar, and said that she frequently smoked K2, a dangerous form of synthetic marijuana that can have unpredictable side effects.

'She was smoking K2 all the time behind my back,' the 49-year-old father said.

Walker added: 'Everybody out here knows about her and K2.

'She had a drug problem. She did everything in her power to keep the kids away from us.'

The boy's uncle, Loriano Porfil, said the family is still in shock over Raymond's death.

'She could have given it to us, we would have taken care of him,' he told NBC4.

'She didn't have to put him away like that.

The baby's father had lived with McLeod until about a year ago when he went to rehab for heroin addiction.

According to Walker, McLeod has three other kids ages eight, 11 and 13, who had already been removed from the 30-year-old's care by Child Services.

At the time of Raymond's murder, Porfil's 16-month-old daughter Ray Jasmine was reportedly in the apartment.

Marisa Kaufman, spokesperson for City Administration for Children's Services, said: 'Our top priority is protecting the safety and well-being of all children in New York City.

'We are investigating this case along with the NYPD and have taken action to secure the safety of the other child in this home.'

Florida man, 22, receives four life sentences for the machete murder of his aunt, her pregnant daughter, 17, and the teenager's boyfriend

·Brian Hyde, 22, convicted on Monday of four counts of second degree murder

Brian Hyde, 22, was convicted on Monday for the murders of his aunt, her pregnant daughter, 17, and the teenager's boyfriend

A Florida man has been sentenced to four concurrent life sentences in prison without parole for using a machete to kill his aunt, her 17-year-old pregnant daughter and the teenager's boyfriend.

Brian Hyde, 22, was convicted on Monday for the murders of 37-year-old Dorla Pitts, Starlette Pitts and 19-year-old Michael Deon Kelly Jr. at their home in Lehigh Acres, Florida, in 2015.

Hyde was found guilty of four second-degree murder charges after the jury deliberated for three hours following a five-day trial. The fourth murder charge was for Starlette Pitts' unborn child.

The victims were found dead after a family friend went to check on them. Hyde was arrested after he was pulled over by law enforcement for driving erratically in Dorla Pitts' car with bloodied pants and shoes.

Dorla Pitt, a certified nursing assistant, is believed to have walked in on the massacre in progress as she was heard by her husband shouting 'Brian! What happened here!' before the line went dead, reported News Press.

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Starlette Pitts, 17, was pregnant with her boyfriend 19-year-old Michael Deon Kelly Jr.'s baby. The couple are pictured left. On the right is Dorla Pitts with her husband, Dorrien

A bloodied palm print at the scene linked Hyde to the murder.

Hyde, a native of Belize, told the court he did not remember the circumstances surrounding the killings.

His defense team claimed this was because of the trauma he sustained while watching many of his family members killed in the Central American country.

He was convicted of the four murder charges in April.

Hyde's first appearance before a jury in November 2017 was declared a mistrial after a relative inadvertently revealed that the defendant was in the country illegally.

Starlette Pitts' and Michael Kelly's one-year-old baby survived the attack. The child is now being raised by Starlette Pitts' father, Dorrien.

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Hyde was convicted of the four murder charges in April. Pictured right is Michael Kelly, Starlette Pitt's boyfriend

BLACK VICTIMHOOD’S

WHITE VICTIMS

What racism in America really looks like.

'He wanted
somebody to be angry at': Girlfriend of 28-year-old killed in 'stand your
ground' shooting in front of their children tearfully describes how Florida
gunman who killed her partner picked the fight

·Markeis McGlockton, 28, was shot and killed
during an argument over a handicap parking space in Clearwater, Florida, on
Thursday

The girlfriend of a man who was shot and killed during a
heated row over a handicapped parking space in Florida last week has called for
justice in the father's death in a new interview.

Markeis
McGlockton, 28, was shot in front of his girlfriend Britany Jacobs and the
couple's three young children on Thursday afternoon after gunman Michael Drejka
picked a fight with the mother for parking in a handicap spot without
tags.

Jacobs described how the argument over proper
parking etiquette took a deadly turn in an emotional interview with Good Morning America on Monday.

'He
wanted somebody to be angry at. He just wanted someone to fight him,' Jacobs
said.

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Britany Jacobs, whose boyfriend was shot and
killed during an argument over a parking space in Florida, appeared on Good
Morning America Monday and called for justice

McGlockton
and the couple's five-year-old son were inside the convenience store when
Drejka approached Jacobs, who was sitting in the car with her infant and
three-year-old children.

'He was
picking a fight. I'm just sitting, waiting for my family to come back to the
car,' she said.

The
mother said she started feeling 'scared' as the argument quickly escalated.

'By
this time a witness pulls up and everybody hears us going back and forth with
one another. [The witness] let the owner know that there was somebody out
there messing with a woman in a car,' she said.

'My man
hears what's going on, sees the guy yelling at me and I'm sitting in the car.
My man is defending me and his children, so he pushes him down.'

'The
guy is on the ground and he pulls the gun out. My dude steps back 'cause my
dude is fearing for his life - all of us were.'

Within
seconds of pulling the gun, Drejka fired a shot directly into McGlockton's
chest.

'Everybody
is panicking, my son is screaming, but it was too late,' she said. 'It's hard
for a four- or five-year-old to witness what he saw. It's really tough for
him.'

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Jacobs broke down in tears describing the
horror of having her son witness his father's death

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Jacobs is pictured with the 28-year-old
pronounced dead at a hospital after the shooting

McGlockton
stumbled back into the store and fought for his life for the next 30 minutes,
but was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

'He was
a good man and all he was trying to do was protect his family,' Jacobs
said.

'I just
want justice. I need something to be done because this is not right.'

Drejka
has been cleared by police because of Florida's 'stand your ground' law, which
authorizes deadly force in self-defense with no duty to retreat from an
attacker.

The
shooting 'is within the bookends of stand your ground and within the bookends
of force being justified,' Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a
press conference Friday.

'No
matter how you slice it or dice it that was a violent push to the ground.

'[Drejka]
told deputies that he had to shoot to defend himself. Those are the facts and
that's the law. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I don't make that
call.'

Drejka
remained on the scene until police arrived and was confirmed to have a
concealed carry license.

The
owner of the Circle-A Food Store WFTS that Drejka had assaulted customers in
the store’s parking lot before.

A man
who frequents the store, Rich Kelly, claimed Drejka picked a fight with him
over a parking spot about a month ago, calling him racial slurs and threatening
to kill him.

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as he scolds Jacobs for parking in a handicapped spot without the proper tags

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McGlockton turns and stumbles back inside the
store as Drejka trains the gun at him

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The owner of the convenience store, pictured,
said Drejka has harassed customers in the parking lot before

Man Gets 50 Years For Murder Of Girlfriend

Marco Holmes, 24, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of Tanja Chadwick, 20, in early 2017. The sentenced was handed down July 19.

Holmes was found guilty of Second Degree murder. The 50-year sentence is the maximum penalty offered in the state of Maryland.

Marco Holmes (left), was recently sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Tanja Chadwick. (Courtesy Photo)

Chadwick, the mother of a then 4-year-old, and aspiring nurse, was dating Holmes when he shot the young woman and then dumped her body.

On January 28, 2017, Chadwick left a relative’s house “to go meet her boyfriend Marco” at the apartment that the couple shared. Chadwick left her son with family that weekend and that was the last time her family heard from her.

Several days later, Chadwick’s body was found in West Baltimore’s Daisy Field, buried under leaves and heavy tree branches.

An autopsy confirmed Chadwick was killed with a single gunshot to the forehead. She also had bruising on her biceps and hands

The chief medical examiner stated “the suspect’s DNA was under the victim’s fingernails.”

Chadwick’s family grew suspicious and filed a missing person report with police when Holmes said the young mother never came to meet him and calls to her cell phone kept going to voicemail.

Chadwick’s cell phone was eventually found by a maintenance worker at the Mannasota Manor Apartment complex, less than a mile from the couple’s apartment.

“While nothing can bring this mother back to her young child, I pray this sentence brings some peace of mind to this family who has had to endure the unimaginable,” said Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in a statement.

“This defendant not only killed this young mother but deceived her family, and he will be locked away from society for a very long time, as he deserves,” the statement also said.

Holmes has also been charged with the use of a firearm in a crime of violence and carrying, transporting, or wearing a handgun.

Video: Band Of Female Lululemon Thieves Hit A Dozen Stores Across The Bay Area

BERKELEY (KPIX) – New video shows a group of women swarming through Lululemon, a popular athletic clothing store and yanking clothes off the shelf before taking off.

More than a dozen Lululemon stores in the Bay Area have been hit in the same way and police say the suspects are still on the loose.

The Lululemon store on Fourth Street in Berkeley is having an unlucky July. Police say this group of thieves has struck four times here since July 2nd, stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise.

Fresno police say the thefts fit the pattern of similar crimes in some Bay Area Lululemon stores, in Berkeley, San Jose, Palo Alto, San Mateo and Gilroy. Most of the crimes are caught on video. The criminals have not been caught.

“It seems that they already know exactly what it is that they want,” said White. “But in some of the videos you just see that they are just grabbing everything that they could fit into their bags.”

Anyone who recognizes the women in the video should contact Berkeley Police right away.